Isaac Nordheimer (1809 in Memmelsdorf, Germany – 3 November 1842, in New York City) was a Jewish American Hebrew scholar who also studied Syriac and other Near East languages.
He was considered an iluy (prodigy) as a boy and was sent to the yeshiva at Pressburg (Bratislava) in Hungary, which was run by the rabbi Moses Schreiber, a leading Orthodox Jewish religious figure.
[4] Grimké wished to foster better Hebrew education in the United States and promote it as a classical language similar to the status given to Greek or Latin.
[5] Arriving in New York in the summer of 1835, Nordheimer decided to stay in the city and seek opportunities there rather than his original plan of travelling to Charleston, South Carolina, as had been agreed upon with Grimké.
He attracted the interest of the American Biblical scholar, Edward Robinson, who was promoting the relatively unfamiliar discipline of philology in the United States, something he had studied in Germany.
It began to decline toward the end of his life, even as he pursued a variety of treatments prescribed by physicians, along with recuperative visits to the Saratoga mineral springs.